John C. Brown, Ph.D.

Dr. Brown received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1978 and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984 and 1987, respectively.

Dr. Brown is a research economist with the Program in Cohort Studies of the National Bureau of Economic Research. During 2015-16 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Regional and Community Outreach Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is also affiliated with the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise and the Clark program in Urban Development and Social Change.

Current Research and Teaching

Dr. Brown is an urban economist and economic historian with research interests in contemporary issues of mid-sized older industrial cities, international trade and historical demography (fertility and mortality). He teaches courses in urban economics, the history of the world economy, principles, and statistics.

"Bringing the Campus to the Community: An Examination of the Clark University Park Partnershp after Ten Years", (with Jacqueline Geoghegan). In Large Land Owners. Editor: Raphael Bostic. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009.

"Regions and Time in the European Fertility Transition: Problems in the Princeton Project's Statistical Methodology", (with Timothy Guinnane) Economic History Review, 60(3) (August, 2007), pp. 574-595.

"The History of the Modern Career: Introduction" (with David Mitch and Marco Van Leeuwen) in John C. Brown, David Mitch, and Marco Van Leeuwen, eds., Origins of the Modern Career: Career Paths and Job Stability in Europe and North America, 1850-1950, Ashgate Press, 2004.

"Working Class Careers: On-the-Job Experience and Career Formation in Munich, 1895-1910" (with Gerhard Neumeier), in John C. Brown, David Mitch, and Marco Van Leeuwen, eds., Origins of the Modern Career: Career Paths and Job Stability in Europe and North America, 1850-1950, Ashgate Press, 2004).